Posted on 08/26/2020 10:34:05 AM PDT by BenLurkin
The official said that the injuries occurred when one of the Russian vehicles apparently deliberately collided with the American vehicle causing the crew to suffer concussion-like injuries. Initial reports indicate as many as four Americans may have been injured.
The officials said a Russian military helicopter flew low and fast over the area in a tactic that is often used by military forces to try to disperse personnel on the ground.
Despite US military leadership at the highest levels being aware of the incident within a short time of it occurring, the Pentagon has still not publicly acknowledged that Americans were hurt, the officials said.
The Pentagon and US-led military coalition fighting ISIS in Syria did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the incident.
US military personnel in Syria have often found themselves operating in close proximity to Russian troops who are backing the Syrian regime, but this is believed to be the first time US troops have been injured in an encounter with Russian forces.
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The problem with playing chicken is that there is no guarantee that either party will chicken out.
His legacy lives on.
Our Sunni/Saudi government decided to overthrow Assad so we created a sunni Syrian rebel movement and armed and equipped them. They instantly morphed into ISIS and became a Frankenstein monster created by us that now we had to deal with.
But we never stopped trying to remove Assad and install a Sunni wahabbist government.
Russia has had an alliance with Syria since the early 1970s.
We did nothing to stop ISIS as they mass murder Christians and destroyed treasures of antiquity.
Russia started bombing the snot out of ISIS, so we harassed them all we could in the air. We attacked “ISIS” and continued to pretend that OUR wahabbist rebels needed protection from the Syrian government. So now we constantly bump elbows with Russia and it’s all on behalf of the damned Saudis.
We need to get outta there. We haven’t been right since we created the whole movement.
Hi.
Back in the day, Ivan didn’t want to dance. Both conscripts and officer Corp. The KBG was a different matter.
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Not necessarily...Alaska close, and in some cases, inside the Arctic.
I don’t expect Trump to withdraw troops from Syria during an election.
I’m with you, Ben!! He will handle it right.
I think Patton would have either fought the Russians, got out and directed traffic, or had a drink with them one “Sookin Sin” to another. Possibly all of the above.
What would Patton do? General Patton had he been left alone would have driven the goddamn communist scourge all the way into the Pacific Ocean! He would have saved the world 80 years of pain and suffering under communism and socialism! Not that I have any strong opinions about your question.
Just being fair as I say this but Russia and Syria are allies and the Russians are living up to their part of that alliance.
Hopefully they will drive out the Turkish Invaders who are trying to reconstitute the Ottoman Empire.
Here is the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvd-34ec3SY
The entire story is fake news. There was a fender-bender max.
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